Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been reared abroad can't go home again--at least not feeling the same as when they left. Their physical removal from America hasn't necessarily alienated them from the society--just given them a more fluid definition of what home and citizenship are. Whoever wrote that song about not being able to stay down on the farm after seeing Paree was at least partly right. Except the underlying reasons for this feeling are not only wanderlust. They range from dissatisfaction with some elements of American society to the development of a commitment to another culture...
Kremlinologists in the West have long speculated that Soviet Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev would sing his swan song at this year's 25th Party Congress. Some swan song...
...played piano four-hands with Stravinsky as a lark." He went to Berlin to study with a brilliant young composer named Kurt Weill. In 1933 both men fled Nazi Germany for Paris. There, Abravanel became a ballet conductor, performing the premiere of the Balanchine-Brecht-Weill ballet-with-song, The Seven Deadly Sins...
Gutsy Actor. The kind of nerve that raises modest hopes for the medium is, however, available on two other specials. Song of Myself (CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers a sketchy biography of Walt Whitman, which is really an excuse to hear a well-selected anthology of his poetry. Poetry in any form is rare on commercial television, and just hearing Whitman well read in a Carl Sandburg singsong by Rip Torn is reason enough for gratitude. But Jan Hartman's script confronts Whitman's homosexuality with good bluntness, and Torn, a gutsy actor who has long deserved...
...began to stomp their feet in time. The bus rattled, the bridge we were crossing seemed to shake, and far below on the roof of a factory a huge flock of pigeons that somehow sensed the apocalyptic moment bestirred itself and rustled off in fright. Just then the song had a rawness and currency that it has since lost in the thousands of times it has been replayed, years later, at white people's parties, and on that afternoon it threatened to crash everything in the city to the ground. By the time the bus reached Druid Hill Avenue, however...